Authors: Judy Foster, Marlene Darlet
Publisher: Venice
Necklace: The Owls
Year edition: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages of the printed version: 398 p.
EAN: 9788899863210
€ 27,00
We have been taught to read history as a linear development from a wild and primitive beginning towards an ever more just and civilized future. Even though wars continue to abound, it is said that we have never lived in such peaceful times. We learn all about the violence of our predecessors, but the patriarchal power system is never questioned. What if the true story was another? What if it began to become evident that the first civilizations were peaceful, without divisions of gender, of wealth and with the wisdom of the Mothers at their centre? Perhaps we could begin to imagine how to rearrange life on the planet and invent new ways of living. The authors make this thesis their own, starting from the research of Marija Gimbutas and backdating the beginnings of human civilizations by many millennia: three million years of peace, a very long period in which women were the heart of human inventions, preceded the last six thousand years of violence under male rule.
